Drupal Module Spotlight: Coffee

Coffee is a magical thing. It gets you going, clarifies your thoughts, makes you feel all warm inside. I don’t know what I’d do without it. So when we consider installing theDrupal modulenamed after this irreplaceable daily beverage, we see that it has a similar effect. It just makes things better. Am I overstating things? Probably. But I haven’t had enough coffee yet today and I need to get this blog going with some pizzazz.

So simply put, the Coffee module gives you a Mac-like live search experience of the Drupal admin menu. It is triggered by the shortcut of Alt+D on the Mac, or Alt+ctrl+D in Windows IE. When the search bar pops up, just start typing and you can do an ajax live search of that deeply nested admin menu and get to things in a hurry!

Now, it’s not perfect. It can’t dig beyond certain levels, such as actually finding the settings of individual contact forms, but it gets nearly everywhere in the first couple of layers and can save you a lot of clicks when in development and site building mode. Even cooler - you can add your own custom coffee commands in your custom module to make your actions discoverable. That’s great flexibility.

So there you have it! A simple module that shaves off a few seconds of time all day long. Pretty awesome!